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Patented Jan. 3l), 1923.

BENJAMIN CULLEN MCW'ORTER, `OF `AC KERMANQ IMISSISSIPPI.

HAY CAR.

yApplication filed4 July 22,

have invented a certain fnew and useful lmproveineut yin Hay Cars, anddo:hereby declare that the following-is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof.

The object of myinvention is to provide a hay holding and'transportingdevice in which the green hay'may :be at once-placed ywhencnt, and vin Vwhichit ymay remain `for curing, if desired andtransported .tothe barn lfor storage, `or for beding; which canVbereadily converted into'a hay rack; and admit of a'number :beingcoupled together for :hauling along as a train, so to speak; .and whichcanbe placed in a Alrnoolreddown condition to secure compactness forstorage, and forthe attainment 'offthese"objectsfand others, which willbeaevide'nt to' those-skilled in the art, my invention consists in thecar constructed Substantially as hereinafter specilied and claimed.`

In the accompanying drawings- Fig. l is a side elevation 0f a carembodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof;

F ig. 8 is a detail view in perspective of oneof the end portions of thecar. v

F ig. 4 is a detail view in perspective showing the connection betweenthe front and side sills.

F ig. is a detail View of the front and rear portions or" two coupledcars.

My car has a base, or platform composed of several longitudinallyextending sills l0, and a series of spaced cross kbars 11, suitablysecured 'to the sills and providing an openworl; structure, which, whileit adequately supports the hay placed in the car affords ampleventilation and renders the construction a light one. The platform restsupon a pivoted wheel front axle and bolster 12, toiwhich a draft tongue13 is attached, a king bolt 14 passingthrough the front cross bar 15 ofthe platform, and through a bracket, or clevis 16 on the underside ofthe middle longitudinal sill, and upon a wheeled rear axle 1T, which isseated near each end in a downwardly opening slot 18 in the underside ofthe outer platform sill so that when desired the rear axle may be'easily disconnected from the platform merely by a downward movement ofthe axle, or the i916. semaine. 110,746.

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lifting of the platform. Longitudinalmove- `ment Vof the axle wheninposition is prevented by bolts or pins'l17,.onits upper sidewhich.engagerthe adjacent side of the center longitudinal sill. Thevfront cross bar 15 liesI between upper andlower .plates 19 on `thetopandLbottom, respectively, of the side sills 1l), and a .boltQO`passing,through holes `in said platesin frontof-said;oross'fbar detachably holds the latter. yt-fwill ybeseen ,that lby :removing 'Said:bolts and `also v'the' slr'tng .pin lil, the front bolster, axle,.wheels and. ,tongue may 4loe `removed vfromzthe ycar. ln orderto'support the car when theqwheels and' axlesv are removed, I provideIfourlegsv ,2 Lf-which are 'hinged tothe yinner :side'of the side sills10, so that'they-lnaybe swung'y to andfrom-.position for use. -By'making' the wheel axleswremovable' I *am -able Ato use the same v-setof axles :for a ,number of oars, `the axles-being-removedffrom one carassoon 'as ithas fbeen carried to the barn, or Aother place for the`further handling of the hay and attached :to another vandyempty-'carfor hauling to the field and so on. A train of cars, when made up, hasno' front axles on any of the cars except the kfirst car, all cars afterthe rst having their front axles removed, and adjoining ears are coupledtogether by connecting the rear end of a preceding car with the frontend of the next following,l car, by passing the king bolt through a holein the tail end of the center sill, l0, and through the elevis, 16, onthefront end of the next following car into which clevis the tail end ofthe center sill of the preceding car is inserted, the coupling'arrangement being shown in Fig. 5. The rear wheelsbel ing retained onall of the cars of the train it will be seen that `ample. support forall of the cars is afforded. l

The two sidesand the front and back ends of the car are similarlyconstructed, and in each case the structure is a slatted oneconsisting'of a vertical series of lhorizontally extending slats 25, anda number of pairs of vertical parallel bars 2G, the bars of each pairbeing spaced apart the width of the slats and being joined by nuttedbolts Q7 arranged in a verticalv series and adapted to engage tops andbottoms of the slats so that horizontally alining vertical series ofretaining devices are thus provided into and out of'which theslats aremovable by a longitudinal movement, so that when dei sired any desirednumber of slats may be removed, as i'or the purpose ot providing' e hayrack, or replaced, in order to prevent cattle `getting' .at the heycontents of the cere and eating the. saine. At their bottoms each insidebar f carried down along the outer sid-e of the outer sills IG, el' endcross har ll, and is bent into an eye 2S so that it may engage a pintle29 in the form of en L-ehaped rod eriven into the sill. It will be seenthat atone end the pintle is 'free and as all ot the pintles aresimilarly arranged it v*will loe evident that by a sliding nieveinentthe easy and qui l: assemblage and separation ot the parts can he.performed and the pinties and cjv'es torni a hinge conH nection so thatit desired the sides or ends may be swung downward withoutremoving` them'from the platform. Ilfhen the sides or ends are in a vertical position.the portion of one or more of the bars 2G which extends over the side ofthe sill, or har, adapted to be engaged by a 'pin 30 driven into theside of the sill, or bar, and which acts as a stop to prevent theslipping ot the bar eye olf the pintle 29, hut when the side, or end isturned down into a horizontal position it clears the stog pin 30 and itdoes not 0bstruct assemblage, or separation of the parts* Preferably theouter har 2G is ot Wood, but, of course, it niey be made of inetal ifdesired. @n the front and rear ends of the top slat of the sides aresecured plates l having .vertical slots in upper sides Which i. adaptedto be engaged by hinge hook p atcs 32 on the end of' 'the top slet otthe end Welle.

As a cover I employ a tarpanlin 33,\\fliich near each corner has a cordor rope 34 Ladapted to be caught over the end. of an adjacent pintle 29and resting at its middle on a longitudinally extending` rod or lier 35,Which is removably supported in heles in the upper ends oi' an upright,or standard 36 secured to each end Wall of the car.

I Wish it to be understood I do not liniit myself to the details ofConstruction shown in the drawings es einhedying the principles ot niyinvention, :is the details of construetion of the parte may he changed.

i'aif'ing thus dcscrihed niy in vention what I claim is:

Means for holding' and transporting` hay, comprising units adapted to beconnected to terni train7 each unit including` a plat- 'forrn and meansto retain hay thereon, such platform at 'front and rear having,` aconstruction 'for detecliahly connecting' the rear of a preceding` unitand the front of e. trailq ing unit, and Wheeled axles each unit trainehaving` ineens for the detachable connection therewith at front and rear0i tivo Wheeled axles.

In testimony that I clairn the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

BENJAMIN (ZULLEN MCWHOR'IER.

